Description formatting question

[sbillard]

Right now the descriptions shown in iFrames retain any HTML formatting that is in the gallery. This includes possible paragraphs, lists, images, etc.

I don't use wordpress, etc. so I really do not understand the issues with overflow boundaries but I can imagine that this formatting might be an issue.

If this is an issue, possible solutions would be:

1. remove the formatting: This might look pretty ugly and would remove any links or images
2. place the description in a scrollable DIV: how high should the DIV be?
3. let the user deal with the issue by changing the oEmbed_height: What guidance should be provided?

[Ipstenu]

The overflow boundary is tied to the height of the iframe.

Here we set the iframe height and width: https://github.com/JorjaFox/embed-npg/blob/production/oembed.php#L611 (Default is 600 wide, 338 high)

When you embed, most CMS' will take that and lock in your iframe to disallow overflow. That means if it's over 338px high, it just will hide the rest. Looks like this:

Right now I'm trimming the description to just 250 words using shortenContent() from NetPhotoGraphics. That should cover most uses.

The oembed height is adjustable via settings, however it's a global for all embeds (unless you want to set it per album which felt like overkill). I tried removing it, but that screenshot above is what happens when I remove the height attribute. I couldn't think of a way to fully calculate iframe height in a reliable way :(